Are you searching the ever-changing biomedical literature for information about COVID-19? Librarians have identified a number of search strategies for researchers who are searching for up-to-date information about COVID-19 from the literature. The Dartmouth Biomedical Librarians are happy to work with you on your searches related to COVID-19 (or other searches and projects too!)—let us know by making a Zoom appointment with one of us: https://www.dartmouth.edu/library/biomed/services/appointments.html.
- Are you searching PubMed? Paste the following into the PubMed search box and add your search terms:
2019-nCoV OR 2019nCoV OR COVID-19 OR SARS-CoV-2 OR ((wuhan AND coronavirus) AND 2019/12[PDAT]:2030[PDAT])
You can also directly search the daily-updated LitCovid resource: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/coronavirus/.
- Are you searching MEDLINE via Ovid? Paste the following into the Ovid search box and add your search terms:
(coronavir* OR corona virus* OR betacoronavir* OR covid19 OR covid 19 OR nCoV OR CoV 2 OR CoV2 OR sarscov2 OR 2019nCoV OR 2019 novel coronavirus* OR 2019 novel CoV OR wuhan virus*).mp. OR ((wuhan OR hubei OR huanan) AND (severe acute respiratory OR pneumonia*) AND outbreak*).mp.
- Are you searching PubMed or Ovid for specific information related to COVID-19, like patient isolation or containment measures? Check out this list of librarian-created search strings.
Note: set up alerts for your searches so you’ll receive updates when new literature is published! For more information on this, visit the CDC COVID-19 research guide: https://www.cdc.gov/library/researchguides/2019NovelCoronavirus.html
- Clinical practice guidelines related to COVID-19 are ever-evolving, but the Medical Library Association is maintaining and updating a discipline-specific list: https://www.mlanet.org/p/cm/ld/fid=1712.
- Looking for something else, or something that isn’t published yet? Be sure to search MedRxiv, a pre-print server for health sciences literature: https://www.medrxiv.org.
- We also recommend Yale’s searchable Zotero collection of relevant articles: https://www.zotero.org/groups/2465841/cwml_covid-19_literature/library
We have a number of other tools and resources available to help with your research on this and other topics—please reach out!
This post was written by Elaina Vitale, a Research and Education Librarian for the Biomedical Libraries.
